Arts & Entertainment Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according to Variety, ordering
Arts & Entertainment 'South Park' Opens 21st Season By Screwing With Everyone's Alexa South Park had its 21st season premiere Wednesday night, and amid jokes skewering white nationalists and home improvement shows, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly did something no satire show has yet succeeded
SF News Oakland, San Jose Both Want To Be In The Running For New Amazon HQ Cities across the country are hoping to win the local economic lottery windfall that will come from a new 50,000-person Amazon headquarters after the rapidly growing company announced Thursday that it intends
SF News Netflix Guy Wants To Give You All The Movie Theater Tickets You Want For $10 A Month A cineplex subscription service dropped the price of a monthly MoviePass to $10. Will you please now leave the house and go to an actual movie theater? Bloomberg brings us news of Mitch
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amazon Goes On Big SF Hiring Spree In an attempt to distract as as Muni shuts down the underground on nights and weekends for weeks on end, they just posted these photos of bearded hipsters testing Muni’s first light
SF News Behold The Bizarre Towers That Amazon Has Designed To House Delivery Drones The future has arrived. Amazon has begun to design towers to house their delivery drones. We're all mere steps away from having groceries, drugs, and vegan Thai food delivered by drones. Seattle-based online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
Arts & Entertainment Apple Introduces Echo Rival HomePod And More At WWDC17 The long anticipated Apple rival to the Amazon Echo and Google Home, dubbed HomePod, has arrived. The centerpiece unveiling at Monday's WWDC keynote presentation, the HomePod is a predictably good looking and well
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Gives In, Prime Content Will Finally Be Available On Apple TV This Summer It looks like relations have warmed between Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, and Amazon and Apple have reportedly reached a truce in their two-year-long cold war over Apple TV and Amazon Prime content.
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot that watches your
SF News Verizon Combining Yahoo And AOL Brands Into New Company Called 'Oath,' God Knows Why Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017. pic.twitter.com/tM3Ac1Wi36— Tim Armstrong (@timarmstrongaol) April 3, 2017 "In the summer of 2017, you can bet we will be launching one of
Arts & Entertainment 'Budding Prospects', Amazon's New Weed Comedy Set In Northern California, Premieres Pilot One of the new shows in Amazon's pilot season is Budding Prospects, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by TC Boyle, and it centers on three guys from San Francisco
SF News Amazon Files Patent For Parachute-Drop Delivery, Perfect For End Times via GIPHY Amazon's plans for widespread, mainstream drone delivery are — please forgive me — up in the air. Still, the company continues to tantalize news media with demonstrations — here's the Verge on their first
Arts & Entertainment Now Is A Good Time To Remember Nazis In SF And Talk About 'The Man In The High Castle' As a German refugee traveling the United States during the 1930s, the photographer John Gutmann described himself as "in paradise" in San Francisco according to the history blog Weimar Art. Shooting mostly the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazon Echo Gets Porn-y Real Quick When Child Asks For A Song Oh so funny. The AI takeover of the universe is still a ways off, and as proof, please observe what happens when Amazon's Echo mishears a child and Alexa turns arbitrarily filthy without
SF News Amazon Patents Floating Blimp Warehouse For Drone Deliveries Say you're tailgating at a 49ers game and, what do you know, you managed to forget the mustard. What to do? In today's stone-age reality, you're probably forced to borrow the condiment from
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
SF News Gun-Wielding Man Demands Packages From Amazon Delivery Driver A pair of armed thieves snatched a couple of mystery boxes from an Amazon delivery driver Sunday, seemingly willing to risk arrest for packages that could very well contain pens or a box
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Castro Theatre Sneak Preview Of 'Transparent' Season 3, With Cast Q&A “I would be happy if I were the last cisgender male to play a transgender female,” Jeffrey Tambor declared Sunday evening in accepting his second Emmy for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, the
SF News Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
SF News Amazon Launches Standalone Streaming In Challenge To Netflix In what can only be read as a direct challenge to fellow video streaming company Netflix, Amazon has announced a new monthly subscription service called Prime Video. The service, which unbundles the video
SF News Google Express To Test Timeliness With Perishable Goods Deliveries Not content to merely drive toilet paper to your front door as the company's service does currently, Google Express — the delivery arm of Alphabet, FKA Google — now seeks to become a go-to provider